snowy farm landscape
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
$400–$3,000. Snow and night scenes tend to command premium prices for this artist. Key value factors: Okuyama's prints are relatively affordable. Bold, well-preserved examples are most valued.
"Snowy Farm Landscape" depicts the rural Japanese farmland under a covering of snow — the fields flattened to white, the farmhouse rooflines and bare tree branches the only vertical accents in a composition dominated by horizontal white expanse. The snowy farm landscape was a subject with deep resonance in Japanese poetry and painting, evoking the quiet isolation of winter rural life and the patient endurance of communities that lived through Japan's cold seasons without the comforts that urban life provided. Okuyama's Yamagata upbringing gave him direct knowledge of this experience.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
snowy farm landscape was created by Gihachiro Okuyama (奥山儀八郎).
snowy farm landscape depicts landscapes and snow scenes.
